Neptune

Neptune, the Roman god of the sea, ruled over all waters and the unpredictable depths beneath the surface. His Greek counterpart Poseidon was volatile and powerful, capable of both calming storms and unleashing devastating earthquakes. The sea in mythology has always represented the unconscious, the boundless, and the realm beyond rational control. Neptune was discovered in 1846, an era of romanticism, spiritualism, and the rise of photography -- all Neptune themes.

Neptune dissolves boundaries -- between self and other, between the real and the imagined, between the individual and the infinite. In a natal chart it describes the capacity for empathy, spiritual longing, artistic inspiration, and, at its difficult extreme, confusion, escapism, or self-deception. As a generational planet, its sign colours the ideals and illusions of an entire generation; its house shows the individual domain most susceptible to both transcendence and dissolution.